L0642 - CIVILIZATION OF CHINESE-SPEAKING COUNTRIES

courses
ID:
L0642
Duration (hours):
54
CFU:
8
SSD:
LINGUE E LETTERATURE DELLA CINA E DELL'ASIA SUD-ORIENTALE
Located in:
PESCARA
Url:
MODERN LANGUAGES FOR MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (15/02/2026 - 25/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


This course contributes to the achievement of the educational objectives of the Master's Degree in Foreign Languages for Managment and International Cooperation, by providing knowledge related to the foreign relations of the People's Republic of China, with specific reference to the United States. The course will enable students to gain knowledge of the origins and historical processes related to China's foreign policy, letting students develop critical skills to evaluate current socio-political dynamics.


Expected Results


At the end of the course, the student is able to:


- put historical events within the broader framework of contemporary socio-political dynamics;


- acquire the terminology of Chinese foreign policy;


- present orally what has been learned, drawing upon historiographical and International Relations terminology.


Making Judgments


At the end of the course, the student is able to:


- interpret contemporary socio-political phenomena;


- put socio-political phenomena in a historical perspective;


- read academic texts critically.




Course Prerequisites


No prior knowledge required

Teaching Methods


Classes (54h)

Texts


Books






Aiden Warren, Adam Bartley, U.S. Foreign Policy and China. Security Challenges During the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2021, (pp. 81-204).






Tonio Savina, I rapporti tra Cina e Stati Uniti. Una prospettiva astropolitica. Libreriauniversitariaedizioni.it, Padova, 2020 (cap. 1, par. 1/3/5; cap. 2, par. 1; cap. 3 par. 1/3; cap.4, par. 1/5 ; cap. 5 par. 1).






Journal Articles






Bonnie Glaser, Evan Medeiros, “The ecology of foreign policy-making in China: the ascension and demise of peaceful rise,” The China Quarterly, n.190, 2007, pp. 291–310.






Marina Miranda, “La questione dell’identità nazionale in Cina e il nuovo nazionalismo contemporaneo”, in L’Identità Nazionale nel XXI Secolo in Cina, Giappone, Corea, Tibet e Taiwan, a cura di M. Miranda, Editrice Orientalia, Roma, 2012, pp. 45- 56.






Simone Dossi, “China’s rise, the Belt & Road Initiative and the future of the global order”, in Dragan Pavlićević e Nicole Talmacs (a cura di), The China Question: Contestations and Adaptations (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 21-42.






Further bibliographical material might be provided in class.

Contents


US-China rapprochement; the Three Joint Communiqués; Washington’s reaction to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests; the Taiwan Relations Act and the Taiwan issue; the strategy of taoguang yanghui (to keep a low profile); U.S. policies of engagement and co-engagement; contemporary Chinese nationalism; China’s accession to the WTO; the concept of “peaceful rise”; the “Chinese threat”; the pivot to Asia; the Belt and Road Initiative; Trump’s China policy.




Course Language

Italian

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